6 Tips: In the Know

So how do I stay 'in the know' and increase my Drupaliness?

Jan 25, 2008
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Submitted By: Fredric Mitchell
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• Drupal
• General Advice

I'll go ahead and warn the readers that this article won't have any fancy code snippets or super dark magic to turn your site into ten billion dollars of reoccurring ad revenue. What it WILL do is give you some great pointers in ramping up your Drupal knowledge as you begin to take over the world...one Drupal site at a time.

Muahahahahahaha....but I digress.

1.) Stay on the channels

While you probably need some clout to get anything answered or explained in #drupal, #drupal-support is where the n00bies flock...and flock often. Although I wouldn't consid...

Sun acquiring MySQL

Jan 16, 2008
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Submitted By: Justin Stanley
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• MySQL

That's great, it starts with an earthquake, birds and snakes, an aeroplane...  Lenny Bruce is not afraid...

Sorry, but that was the first thing that popped into my mind when I read this article this morning.  Yeah, I'm probably overreacting, but still the idea of everyone's favorite little open source database getting gobbled up by the folks that brought us Solaris is, well, a little disheartening.

All sorts of speculati...

Portland January Meetup Tonight

Cookies and Lullabots at Hotel deLuxe

Jan 09, 2008
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Submitted By: Justin Stanley
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• Drupal
• News

Just a little reminder for the Drupalers in the Portland/Vancouver area that the Lullabot folks will be hosting a meet-up this fine evening (Wednesday, January 9) at the Hotel deLuxe.  If bathing in a sea of Drupal experts while eating free cookies isn't enough, Jeremy and I will be there, too.

Google Maps/Amazon/Banned Books Mashup - Part 2

Geocoding with Google Maps API

Jan 07, 2008
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Submitted By: Justin Stanley
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• AJAX
• General Advice
• Google
• MySQL
• PHP

When we last heard from Our Hero, we’d begun the joyous process of creating a simple Google Maps/Amazon mashup.  We took a peek at what the finished product should look like, we obtained our Google Maps API key, and we created our database tables and populated them with some data.  All good things.

We also talked about geocoding, that process of converting a street address into the coordinates (longitude and latitude) that Google Maps digs.  Our LOCATIONS table has some street addresses and empty columns just hankerin’ for some longit...

The Power of template.php

A few techniques to help your designers.

Jan 02, 2008
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Submitted By: Fredric Mitchell
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• Drupal
• PHP

Theming a fresh Drupal site always gives the designers true glory. Well, its time that I help out my fellow programmers. After all, without us, its just a pretty drupal core.

First things first. I'm assuming that you and the designer are working on a clean theme, like zen. I'm also assuming the use of Drupal 5. Most of the code is available via drupal.org.

So what kinds of things can you do?

Custom id and class tags

The most important thing to know is that Drupal allows the modification of theme functions within this file. This means any...